What's the difference between ally and gally?

Ally


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with.
  • (v. t.) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.
  • (v.) A relative; a kinsman.
  • (v.) One united to another by treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.
  • (v.) Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.
  • (v.) Anything akin to another by structure, etc.
  • (n.) See Alley, a marble or taw.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (2) The defensive modifications of the functions of the ego itself seen in micropsia are closely allied to those seen in the dèjá vu experience and in depersonalization.
  • (3) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
  • (4) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
  • (5) Others said it might appeal to Russia, Assad's chief ally, which backs talks between the regime and the opposition.
  • (6) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
  • (7) There are no more parties, there is only Greece," said Markos Bolaris, the new deputy health minister and close ally of the former prime minister George Papandreou .
  • (8) It also leaves Britain and its western allies marginalised.
  • (9) On 26 April 1937 this market town was obliterated in three hours of bombing by Nazi planes, allies of Generalísimo Francisco Franco’s fascists in the Spanish civil war.
  • (10) Iraqi police have also executed detainees in Tal Afar and government-allied militias opened fire on a mosque in the Khanaqin district northeast of Baghdad killing 73 men and boys, Pansieri said.
  • (11) Recent theoretical developments in health psychology and allied disciplines on coping behaviour and social support should be integrated into biomedical models of the aetiology, pathogenesis and clinical course of malignant neoplasia.
  • (12) David Beckham's plan to bring a Major League Soccer franchise to Miami looks to be on life support after the city's mayor, Tomás Regalado, previously a key ally in the project, said no to the construction of a stadium at a prime waterfront site.
  • (13) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
  • (14) The US and its allies are balking at Iranian demands for all UN sanctions to be lifted at the start of a deal.
  • (15) • Mubarak becomes a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process, remaining a consistent US ally bolstered by billions of dollars in American aid.
  • (16) The Ayotzinapa school has long been an ally of community police in the nearby town of Tixtla, and Martinez said that, along with the teachers’ union and the students, it had formed a broad front to expel cartel extortionists from the area last year.
  • (17) [The US] is our friend and strategic ally and you can't just treat a friendly country's representatives like this.
  • (18) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
  • (19) Britain is being urged to halt the supply of weapons to its ally Saudi Arabia in the light of evidence that civilians are being killed in Saudi-led attacks on rebel forces in Yemen .
  • (20) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.

Gally


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To frighten; to worry.
  • (a.) Like gall; bitter as gall.
  • (n.) See Galley, n., 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We found that the Gallie system generally allowed significantly more rotation in flexion, extension, axial rotation, and lateral bending than the other three fixation techniques.
  • (2) Galli said there were already about 200,000 hospitalisations of women who have undergone a clandestine termination every year, and a suspected 1 million illegal abortions before the epidemic.
  • (3) Aldolase activity was diminished by 57 and 32% in A. galli and H. gallinae, respectively, with 10(-4)M levamisole.
  • (4) the sphenoid, ethmoid, and occipital bones) and to abnormal spatial relationships between the cribriform plate and the crista galli, resulting in a positional disarrangement of the points of basal attachment of the dura matter.
  • (5) The anterior end of the olfactory groove was first classified into three types, i.e., normal type, obliterated type (obliterated by cancellous bone) and dangerous type (with Recessus cristae galli and Torus olfactorius).
  • (6) Inorganic analysis of Ascaridia galli has shown the levels of sodium, potassium, copper, magnesium, calcium, zinc, iron, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine and cobalt (expressed as percentage of dry weight) to be higher in females than in males.
  • (7) Efficacies of 14.3-89% against Ascaridia galli were obtained with dietary levels of 125-1000 ppm Sch 18099 fed for 7 days.
  • (8) Therefore, in order to evaluate the efficiency of various cervical fixation techniques, we determined the translations at the posterior arch of C1 for four C1-C2 posterior techniques: Gallie, Brooks, Magerl, and Halifax.
  • (9) Galli confirmed that Washington has yet to file a formal request seeking extradition.
  • (10) Atlantoaxial subluxation has been treated conventionally by Gallie posterior fusion.
  • (11) Furthermore selective phytotoxic activity against two important infesting graminacae, Echinochloa crus-galli R.S.
  • (12) Ascaridia galli and Heterakis gallinae obtained from the common fowl Gallus gallus were exposed to 10(-2)-10(-5)M levamisole and albendazole; both compounds caused death of the parasites in vitro.
  • (13) L-(U-14C) aspartic acid, L-(U-14C) alanine and L-(U-14C) leucine uptake by Ascaridia galli was found to be a non-linear function of time and limiting substrate concentration.
  • (14) B. galli is assigned to the kingdom Protista, type Rhizopoda, class Lobosea, subclass Gymnamoebia, order Blastocystida.
  • (15) The chromosome number of A. galli is also 2n = 10 for female specimens and 2n = 9 for males ones.
  • (16) There are weak points that are not acceptable,” Philippe Galli, prefect for the Seine-Saint-Denis region that is in part responsible for security at the stadium, told Le Parisien newspaper .
  • (17) Glucose-6-phosphatase is present in A. galli and C. cotylophorum and absent in R. cesticillus.
  • (18) The substrate affinity constant (Kt) and maximum apparent velocity of glucose uptake in A. galli were found to be 9.09 mM and 26.67 mM per 100 mg tissue dry weight per min at 37 degrees C.
  • (19) N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate transferase was demonstrated in the microsomal fraction of Ascaridia galli.
  • (20) The Brooks (1.6 mm) and Halifax (1 mm) were not different from each other, Magerl, or Gallie.

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